Gratteri: “in Naples the Camorra had created an online bank that laundered billions of dollars, with 6,000 customers in Lombardy and Lazio and offices in Lithuania and Latvia. Laundering amounted to more than 3 billion”

Gratteri in the classroom during the presentation of the Report "Cyber ​​organized crime. Mafias in Cyberspace" said:

"Criminal organizations now consider the ‘old’ protection money as something outdated".

Gratteri said he discovered in Naples that the "Camorra had created an online bank that laundered billions of dollars, with six thousand customers in Lombardy and Lazio and also with offices in Lithuania and Latvia. The laundering amounted to more than three and a half billion euros, of which only two were seized".

“The thing that surprised us is that in the seized banks we found technologies that our judicial police wouldn’t even dream of. Unfortunately, in its actions to combat the mafia, Italy has lagged behind countries such as Germany, Holland and Belgium which now have to help us. In the police force there is a complete lack of young engineers capable of giving the push our system needs. We are wasting too much time and a lot of field.”

In short: investments in technology are needed to fight the mafias, Italy has lagged behind on this.